Month: September 2009

I’ve just been reading some good stuff over at On the Issues: this piece about misogyny & this one about biology & the binary & this one about the long history of bias against women in science (a la Darwin… Continue Reading →

I meet a lot of lovely people as a result of writing two books, and I meet them via email, online, on social networking sites. Recently on FB, I decided to restrict who I friended to people I’d met, people… Continue Reading →

The Congressional Hearings about ENDA happened yesterday, & you can find the archived webcast on the website of the Committee on Education & Labor. You can also catch excerpts on YouTube. Watch, read, listen, but then: Contact the Capitol Switchboard… Continue Reading →

In an article detailing how some of Ms. Semenya’s people knew there might be something up about her gender, a CNN article blithely describes the history of gender testing: The process of gender verification has undergone big changes since it… Continue Reading →

You have ’em, I need them. I met someone at TransOhio who writes the Midwest GenderQueer blog. & Of course there’s TransOhio. & The Big Gay Conference (2009’s site is here, but I haven’t found 2010’s yet). But I need… Continue Reading →

This bar’s new ID policy is utter bullshit and transphobic nonsense. Hunter’s has benefited from trans patronage for years, but now wants to keep trans people out. Maybe the patrons who are against the policy can swap IDs at the… Continue Reading →

Damn, Jim Carroll died. I missed the news probably because he died on 9/11 this year, & that’s the day I avoid the news (because every clever media asshole thinks it’s a good idea to replay footage that still traumatizes… Continue Reading →

I’m getting reports that my RSS feed has gone wonky again, except that it’s not wonky everywhere. So I’m wondering for those of you who are having problems, what your feed reader is. So far, this seems like it’s a… Continue Reading →

& Here’s some classist bullshit from The NY Times. The question put to me by my friend who sent it: “So, was working for women always a dog walking on its hind legs sort of thing? News: Upper class educated… Continue Reading →